Thank you, Leonid, for your answer but you can see (below) it’s not a rounding issue ; there are udge variations of time ?!!!
*INPUT FILE :* ID DATE TIME DV AMT RATE MDV EVID 3 1 0 0 2000 -2 1 1 3 1 2.6 1060 . . 0 0 3 1 170.1166667 331 . . 0 0 3 2 170.1166667 . 2000 -2 1 1 3 2 172.1166667 1220 . . 0 0 3 2 326.3333333 220 . . 0 0 3 3 326.55 . 2000 -2 1 1 3 3 328.6166667 964 . . 0 0 3 3 504.8333333 1260 . . 0 0 *OUTPUT FILE :* ID DATE TIME IPRED CL D1 V1 IWRES 3 1 0 0 1.7711 113.17 35.217 0 3 1 2.6 1223 1.7711 113.17 35.217 -0.13328 3 1 170.12 567.29 1.7711 113.17 35.217 -0.41653 3 2 194.12 169.68 1.7711 112.49 35.217 -1 3 2 196.12 1114 1.7711 112.49 35.217 0.09514 3 2 350.33 1110 1.7711 112.49 35.217 -0.80181 3 3 374.55 328.36 1.7711 140.63 35.217 -1 3 3 376.62 1089.8 1.7711 140.63 35.217 -0.11542 3 3 552.83 1208.1 1.7711 140.63 35.217 0.04297 Loïc FIEVET Interne IPR en pharmacocinétique Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse - Oncopole 1 avenue Irène Joliot-Curie 31059 TOULOUSE Cedex 9 2015-04-20 19:21 GMT+02:00 Leonid Gibiansky <lgibian...@quantpharm.com>: > it could be rounding issue when the precision of the TIME in the data file > exceeds the precision of the TIME in the output of the table. You could > increase precision of the output using format statement (see manual). Other > than that, NONMEM should not change TIME variable. > > Leonid > > -------------------------------------- > Leonid Gibiansky, Ph.D. > President, QuantPharm LLC > web: www.quantpharm.com > e-mail: LGibiansky at quantpharm.com > tel: (301) 767 5566 > > > > On 4/20/2015 12:12 PM, Diane-Charlotte Imbs wrote: > >> Dear nonmem users, >> >> We used the option “-2 RATE” of NONMEM (actual rate of infusion is >> unknown): within the control stream: >> >> D1=THETA(1) >> >> Moreover, since several infusions are given to the same patients, we >> have added an inter-occasion variability on D1 (see code below)* >> >> We obtained nice fit BUT in the OUTPUT DATA: TIME values corresponding >> to blood samples (and DV) are not identical to the actual TIME values of >> the INPUT data !? >> >> It seems that NONMEM program adjusts rate values, their interoccasion >> variability, and sampling times to have a good fit >> >> *How to fix TIME value corresponding to blood samples ? Indeed, we do >> not know the actual infusion rate but we do know the sampling times.* >> >> ** >> >> Can anyone tell me if I chose the right model or help me resolving this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> *$PK >> >> OCC1=0 >> >> OCC2=0 >> >> IF(DATE.EQ.1) OCC1=1 >> >> IF(DATE.EQ.2) OCC2=1 >> >> D1=THETA(1)*EXP(ETA(3)+ETA(4)*OCC1+ETA(5)*OCC2) >> >> $THETA (0,168,);D1 >> >> $OMEGA .1 ; iiv d1 >> >> $OMEGA BLOCK(1) .01 ; iov ETA4 OCC1 >> >> $OMEGA BLOCK(1) SAME ; iov ETA5 OCC2 >> >> >> *Loïc FIEVET* >> >> */Interne IPR en pharmacocinétique (1^er semestre)/* >> >> *Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse - Oncopole* >> >> 1 avenue Irène Joliot-Curie >> >> 31059 TOULOUSE Cedex 9 >> >>